Åsa gave me this bread the other day as a reward because I cleaned her apartment (yes I am that nice! Or, she needed it and she also provided me with wine). She works at Alvar&Ivar which is the best bakery in all of Göteborg and that’s where the bread is from aswell. They make sourdough bread, vegan, ecological & fantastically good. (I don’t even usually like bread that much at all so me thinking that a bread is fantastical is very rare!)  If you’re ever in Gothenburg, you should go there!! Keep Åsa baking!!

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With the exception of like half a box of After Eight on New Years eve because I really felt like stuffing myself, abunch of pieces of christmas toffees and two semlas the other day, I haven’t eaten sugar since mid August. When you don’t eat sugar it takes like a week or two before the want for it goes away. After that you never really feel like having it at all and do not miss it. At least that’s what it’s been like for me. So it’s an easy habit to break really, if you can just  stand the urge for the first couple of weeks.
The hard parts so far have been pretty much none, I’d say. I have not been super purist and refused sugars in foods, and of course I eat fruit sugars so it’s not hard socially (definitely harder than being vegan though! people are pushier about wanting you to eat sugar from my experience. And swedish fika is so social, way more social than animal consumption)
An interesting thing is that what used to not taste like sugar, such as smoothies, start to taste really fantastical when your taste buds aren’t numbed by ordinary sugar all the time. And another good thing is that you never ever miss it once it’s out of your system, the times I have eaten sugar in the past after quitting have only been after social pushing, not because I couldn’t resist the sugar urge.

How to not eat sugar:
1. Decide you don’t want it.
2. When you feel like sugar make a smoothie with berries, soy milk & banana instead.
3. Stick to it (haha, easy to say) Don’t cheat too often or you’ll get hooked. (though cheat sometimes or life’d be boring)